Events

Choosing the Future of Antarctica

Old Government House, University of Auckland, Princes St, Auckland city

Christchurch Book Launch: ‘Fifteen Million Years in…

Scorpio Books, BNZ Centre, 120 Hereford St, Christchurch

‘Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica’ by Rebecca Priestley, offers a deeply personal tour of a place in which a person can feel like an outsider in more ways than one.

With generosity and candour, Priestley reflects on what Antarctica can tell us about Earth’s future and asks: do people even belong in this fragile, otherworldly place? p/b, $40.

Choosing the Future of Antarctica

Choosing the Future of Antarctica

LT 1, Te Toki a Rata Building, Victoria University of Wellington, Kelburn Campus, Wellington

Tim Naish is Professor in Earth Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington, and was Lead Author on the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 5th Assessment Report.

Choosing the Future of Antarctica

Wanaka Presbyterian Community Centre, 91 Tenby St, Wanaka

What about Antarctic sea ice?

This year’s Sir Holmes Miller Memorial Lecture recognises a different style of Antarctic pioneering –  the application of physics to understanding sea ice, a critical feature of the Antarctic cryosphere and climate system. Tim Haskell has been engaged in New Zealand’s internationally known sea ice programme since its inception over 40 years ago and will reflect on its history and future, with some asides on the way. We hope you can join us. All welcome!

Remote Antarctic surveying – 850km from Scott…

Auckland Antarctic Science MeetUp

6pm Wed 14 August 2019

• Professor Gary Wilson, Geologist, GNS Science

How to locate the grounding line, where the West Antarctic Ice Sheet starts to float, and become the Ross Ice Shelf?  – explosives and hot-water drilling at the Siple Coast!

What’s going on under the Ross Ice…

New Zealand Antarctic Society, Wellington

6pm Tues 23 July 2019

• Dr Craig Stewart, NIWA

The future of the Antarctic Ice Sheet is closely linked to the stability of the floating ice shelves that surround it, and these are susceptible to melting by the ocean. So what’s going on with the Ross Ice Shelf?

Secrets revealed from beneath the Ross Ice…

Auckland Antarctic Science MeetUp

6pm Mon 22 July 2019

• Dr Fabio Caratori Tontini, Marine Geophysicist, GNS Science

The floating Ross Ice Shelf is the size of Spain, the dark ocean cavity beneath is a blind spot in the global ocean system. The 4 year ROSETTA-Ice project set out to survey what lay beneath the ice.